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LIFF
Presents: Annette starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, plus Promising
Young Woman and Women X Festival on Leeds Film Player and more...
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LIFF
Presents returns with Annette starring Adam Driver & Marion
Cotillard
LIFF
Presents - the year-round series of film previews and special events from
Leeds International Film Festival - returns to Vue in The Light from 1
September with the film that opened Cannes 2021. Annette is a wild
musical fantasia about love, passion and fame from visionary director Leos
Carax (Holy Motors, Les Amants du Pont-Neuf), with story and
music by Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks.
Henry
(Adam Driver) is a stand-up comedian with a fierce sense of humour who
falls in love with Ann (Marion Cotillard), a world-renowned opera singer.
Under the spotlight, they form a passionate and glamorous couple. With the
birth of their first child, Annette, a mysterious little girl with an
exceptional destiny, their lives are turned upside down.
Wednesday
1 September at 6.30pm at Vue in The Light
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Promising Young Woman,
Saint Maud, Gunda and more on Leeds Film Player,
Censor in cinemas, Square Chapel Arts Centre reopens and more...
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Leeds
Film Player: Promising Young Woman, Saint Maud, Gunda and more
Acclaimed new
titles have been added to Leeds Film Player, including the Oscar
nominated satire Promising Young Woman starring Carey
Mulligan, the must-see British Horror Saint Maud, and the
intimate documentary Gunda which beautifully chronicles the
lives of a mother pig and her piglets. There’s also more time to
catch recent LIFF Selects titles Ammonite, Minari, Miss
Juneteenth, Cowboys and The Assistant.
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Woman
X Film Festival 2021
on
Leeds Film Player
Back for its
second year, Women X Film
Festival 2021 is an in-person festival at ARC Stockton
Arts Centre, based in Stockton-on-Tees in the North East, along with
a virtual experience on Leeds Film Player presented in partnership
with Leeds International Film Festival. The festival will
showcase short films from around the world on Leeds Film Player,
while also running informative and inclusive talk sessions in
venues.
Thurs
2 - Fri 10 September
on Leeds Film Player
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LIFF
Behind the Scenes: Laurence Boyce
Our LIFF Behind
the Scenes series brings you interviews with a wide range of people
working in film exhibition who all have a connection with Leeds
International Film Festival. For our latest instalment, we talk
to Laurence Boyce, Head of Programme for PÖFF Shorts (Black Nights
Film Festival in Tallinn, Estonia) and a film journalist who has
written for Screen International, The Guardian, Variety and more.
Read
the LIFF Behind the Scenes interview
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Prano
Bailey Bond's 1980s VHS horror homage Censor
Directed by Prano
Bailey Bond and filmed with support from Screen Yorkshire, Censor is
a tribute to 1980s VHS 'Video Nasty' horror classics that blurs the
lines between fiction and reality. When film censor Enid discovers a
strange horror that relates directly to her sister's mysterious
disappearance, she sets out to learn more about the film and its
enigmatic director.
Now
screening at Vue in The Light,
ODEON Leeds-Bradford and
more, and 12 & 13 September at Leeds University
Union
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Scalarama
Leeds 2021
An annual,
month-long celebration of cinema, Scalarama returns once again in
September. Featuring a wonderful and varied programme of independent
films across the city, the line-up includes What Ever
Happened to Baby Jane? at Wharf Chambers, a Batman Forever VHS
screening at Hyde Park Book Club, Troll 2 at Archive, walking
tours of Leeds' cinema heritage with Hiding in Plain Sight and more.
Events throughout September.
Visit Scalarama
Leeds online
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Night
of the Kings
at Leeds University Union
An otherworldly
drama and tale of survival, Philippe Lacôte’s visionary Night of
the Kings pays tribute to the West African tradition of
storytelling. Presented with Hyde Park Picture House at Leeds
University Union, the film follows a young man sent to a remote
forest on the Ivory Coast ruled by its inmates. With the rising
of the red moon, he is designated by ritual to tell the other
prisoners a story which must last until dawn.
Thu
26 August, 8.15pm at
Leeds University Union
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Nicolas
Cage stars in Michael Sarnoski’s unique drama Pig
Nicolas Cage gives
a terrific performance in a more low key role than of late,
playing Rob Feld, a reclusive truffle hunter in writer-director
Michael Sarnoski’s debut feature Pig. Alone in the Oregon
wilderness apart from his porcine companion, Feld is forced to go
back to face civilisation when the animal is stolen. Playing
inventively with revenge thriller conventions, Sarnoski’s film is a
poetic, quietly moving character drama.
From
27 August at Ilkley Cinema.
5 & 6 September at Leeds University
Union
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Unseen
Histories film programme
Running throughout
September, Unseen Histories is a festival of artworks and events
exploring Black British history in Leeds. Films on the programme
include the late, prolific filmmaker Menelik Shabaz's Burning An
Illusion at Leeds University Union and the 2012 Leeds film We
Are Poets at City Varieties, both presented by Hyde Park Picture
House, plus four BFI Film Shorts selected by The Black Cinema
Project at Leeds Industrial Museum.
Find
out more about Unseen Histories
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Square
Chapel Arts Centre reopens
Halifax's Square Chapel Arts Centre reopens in September, once again
presenting a brilliant selection of independent films and special events.
New features screening include Limbo, Ammonite, Another
Round, Censor, The Father and Supernova. Celebrating
Father Ted with Joe Rooney welcomes the actor who had a memorable
appearance in the classic Irish sitcom.
View the Square Chapel Arts
Centre film programme
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The
Nest: a tense, slowburn family drama
Director Sean
Durkin, who had a Sundance Film Festival hit with his debut Martha
Marcy May Marlene in 2011 finally returns with a follow up
feature. Jude Law and Carrie Coon star in this tense, slowburn family
drama. When an English commodities broker driven towards an
excessively extravagant lifestyle moves his US family to Surrey,
unwelcome truths in their home life begin to surface.
The Nest screens from Fri 27 August
at Everyman Leeds, Harrogate and York, City Screen York, Vue in The
Light and more
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The
Criterion Collection Competition: Win July's releases on Blu-ray
Our exclusive
monthly competition gives you the chance to win one of two bundles of
the latest Blu-rays from The Criterion Collection. August's releases
include Deep Cover, All About Eve and Blow Out. For a
chance to win, answer the following question: Blow Out star John
Travolta was the original choice to play the title role in a 1994
film, which was eventually given to Tom Hanks. What was the film? Email
answers to leeds.film@leeds.gov.uk
by midnight on Sunday 29 August 2021.
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Film
industry opportunities...
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Hebden
Bridge Picture House:
Manager Role
Hebden Royd Town
Council are recruiting a new manager for Hebden Bridge Picture House.
They are looking for an experienced manager with a passion for the
Arts. Responsibilities include all aspects of the operation and
strategic management of the cinema, managing 20 staff, developing
their programme of films and events, building and diversifying
audiences and ensuring legal and security procedures are adhered to.
Apply
by midday, Tues 31 August
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BFI
Film Academy Leeds
The BFI Film Academy Leeds helps train and inspire the
next generation of UK filmmakers, supporting young people aged 16 to
19 to develop the skills to make a career in film. The training
covers every film industry role, from writing to production, sound design,
editing and camera, whilst providing learning around film history and
cinematic storytelling to inspire an appreciation of film culture.
Apply
by 5pm, 26 September 2021 or email martin.grund@leeds.gov.uk for more
info
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Leeds
Film is supported by the British Film Institute
Leeds
Film is proud to have achieved the BFI Diversity Standards
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The
Weekend Starts Here @ Seven
It may promise to be a cool and cloudy bank holiday weekend, but there
is a sunny outlook at Seven with world music from Kwame D, jazz
from Jenny Smith and
opera from Northern Opera Group.
Also, this weekend we have our favourite pizza pop-up, Canteen. Order
your delicious pizza atSeven and the Canteen experience will be zipped
across the road. Friday
27th August, evening from 5pm.Saturday 28th – Sunday 29th August,
lunchtime and evening. Sadly not Monday 30th August.
Tomorrow, Saturday
28th August, 5-7pm, the finale of our Summer Saturdays - Kwame D
with reggae infused soulful R&B and World Music. Seven's courtyard; inside if
wet. PWYF donations.
On Sunday 29th August,
1.30-3.30pm, JazzLeeds presents Jenny
Smith. Jenny is a versatile vocalist and though rooted in
jazz and popular music, she effortlessly moves between genres and
styles. Playing with Jon Chamberlain on keys. Seven's courtyard. PWYF
donations.
A short but sweet treat on Bank
Holiday Monday 3.30pm as Northern Opera Group
presents a short 20 minute ingenious production of Holst's
Wandering Scholar performed as part of the Leeds Opera Festival 2021. In Seven's Courtyard. PWYF
donations.
We look
forward to seeing you at Seven very soon. Every £ spent at Seven helps
support high quality arts in a local setting.
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